Bigger than a bread box

I read this in about one day and I enjoyed it but it was pretty forgettable. In a show of spectacularly bad parenting (IMHO) Rebecca's mother moves her and her brother away from their home in Baltimore to get away from Rebecca's father who...hasn't done much of anything to deserve such treatment. Yeah, the guy's not the best husband, but wow. Anyway, Rebecca is understandably upset but she is cheered a bit when she finds an old bread box that grants wishes. She can wish for anything she wants, provided what she wants will fit inside the bread box.

This was a fun and easy read which would probably appeal to the preteen crowd. It's too real to be considered a proper fantasy and yet there aren't enough real-life things that happen to hold the interest of kids who prefer realistic fiction. I'm not sure about this one.